A partnership of partnerships: Rallying around our Michigan family

Too often both rural and inner-city communities don’t get the support they need and deserve. Knowing the extreme need for our neighbors across Michigan, the Relentless Care Foundation assembled a partnership of partnerships to raise an additional $220,000 to support affordable housing, from operating capital to educational programs, for Michiganders who need it.

Key Partners:

• Community Financial Credit Union
• Federal Home Loan Bank of Indianapolis
• Habitat for Humanity of Northeast Michigan
• MiWealth
• Grandmont Rosedale Development Corp.

How it started: Building h-Ope!^™ with Habitat for Humanity in Hillman

In Hillman, a rural community just minutes from one of our CFCU branches in Michigan’s north country, Habitat for Humanity of Northeast Michigan is currently building five new, affordable, single-family homes.

In addition to committing an initial $60,000 to cover the land purchase in 2024, the Relentless Care Foundation team is partnering with Habitat for Humanity on a federal grant application to help ensure that working people can afford these homes.

What’s more, Community Financial's h-Ope!^™ Mortgage program will empower Habitat for Humanity to create Belonging for more first-time buyers by ensuring the biggest barriers to homeownership don’t stand in their way. We do all of this because we see people, not numbers.

Bridging the rural-urban divide: Using our learnings to enhance affordable housing in Detroit

Seeing affordable housing success coming together in Hillman, we’re combining what we learned up north with a little hustle and grind to boost up our neighbors in Detroit.

While rural and urban communities both face very different challenges, they share many of the same underserviced issues around housing... a place that we know we can make a difference.

Working our partnership of partnerships, from Community Financial Credit Union to the FHLBank Indianapolis to the Grandmont Rosedale Development Corp., we’ve secured operating and educational funds to help make housing and home ownership affordable and attainable for the big city neighbors we serve every day. And we intend to keep supporting with more down the road.

Not just one (or two!) and done: A commitment to care that is truly relentless

The Relentless Care Foundation isn’t your average charitable foundation. While most charities drop into a community, make a headline and disappear, this latest success is further proof that our RCF team is dedicated to making real change over time. Walking with our partners and making the connections necessary to keep progress moving forward for the good of the community.

Stay tuned for so much more!

There’s more to come for Detroit and Hillman. This summer the Relentless Care Foundation is applying for further FHLBank Indianapolis funding, while seeking to secure infrastructure money to expand an affordable neighborhood in Hillman through the MSHDA (Michigan State Housing Development Authority). We can’t wait to see what comes together next!

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